DWI charges for two found asleep at the wheel

VINELAND – Police charged two drivers, found sleeping behind the wheel in separate incidents, with driving while intoxicated.

Officers responded to a call for an unconscious woman at the South Brewster Road Wawa just after 7 a.m. April 14 and found a woman asleep in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked in a stall with the engine running.

After police woke her up, the woman, identified as Kiara M. Brown, 19, of the 3000 block of Hance Bridge Road, told police she fell asleep because she was tired. Police noted their investigators learned Brown was reportedly drinking the night before.

After failing field sobriety tests, Brown went to the police station where a breath test measured her blood alcohol content at more than twice the legal limit, police said. Officers cited her for reckless driving, underage consumption of alcohol by a minor and driving on a suspended license.

Later in the day, police arrested a 44-year-old man after they responded to a call about an unconscious driver in a vehicle on North East Avenue and Forest Grove Road.

The man, identified as Martin Sierra of the 100 block of South West Avenue, reportedly told police that he’d been drinking during the day and didn’t want to go through the field sobriety tests.

He told officers that he was “sorry and wanted to go to jail," according to police reports.

A breath test at the police station measured Sierra’s blood alcohol content at almost four times the legal limit, police said.

He is charged with reckless driving, having an open container of alcohol inside a vehicle, driving while unlicensed and driving on a revoked license.